“Sometimes love happens when you least expect it.” That was what my husband’s mistress told me the day I found out about their affair.
I didn’t believe it until five minutes later when mouth-watering celebrity chef Tanner Reese walked up, tossed his arm around my shoulders, and told my cheating husband to take a hike. Tanner and I couldn’t have been more different. He spent his weekends at clubs, rubbing elbows with fellow A-listers. I spent mine in yoga pants with cheese boards and a glass of wine—or six. Our relationship shouldn’t have worked, but it did. That is until Tanner proved to me that even though love happens when you least expect it... So does heartbreak.
✯✯5 Tanner Filled Stars!!!✯✯
I have wanted both Tanner and Rita from Aly Martinez’s Darkest Sunrise Duet. I was stoked to find out they were getting a book. The storyline follows the duet. But, it doesn’t give anything up instead it gives you a few laughs on Tanner’s POV.
Rita’s given everything to her husband. She never went to medical school, she’s changed her looks for what he prefers and she manages his office. She’s your typical trophy wife, the wife of a Dr. When Rita finds out her husband has been cheating on her with a college she’s blindsided, crushed and lost.
Rita’s not sure who she is anymore. Doesn’t know the real her. While at their annual BBQ their job has Rita is confronted by both her ex and his girlfriend. Rita can’t get away. Then a knight comes in to her rescue. Rita didn’t know who this beautiful man was but was grateful for stepping in and then playing along with her. Rita was shocked to learn to was Tanner Reese, celebrity chef.
Tanner Reese has always loved cooking. He spent most of his childhood in the kitchen with his mom instead outside playing sports.
Recently most of his days he’s filming his cooking show instead of in the kitchen doing what he loves. His ex-girlfriend has done nothing but make his life miserable. Bc of her he’s afraid he could loose his show, reputation and who knows what else. His mom and lawyer have advised him to stay away from women.
When Tanner saw Rita being attacked by that guy he can’t help but step in. Tanner was shocked when the beauty looked at him she had no idea who he was. He was just Tanner and not a celebrity chef spending his days cooking without a shirt.
Tanner can see she’s newly single and neither of them are ready for something serious. But, they want to spend time together. What’s wrong with being friends. They can’t help themselves. With a soon to be ex-husband, an ex-girlfriend and his mom in the way these two might be doomed before they begin.
Once I started this I couldn’t put it down. I was petrified that Tanner was going to be Rita’s rebound and I liked him too much to get hurt again. Their story was fast and perfect. It was shocking to see a different side of Momma Reese lol but it was a great read.
I just wish we saw more from Porter and his adorable children. Other then that I liked this.
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I shifted the phone to my other ear and asked her, “Did you just get in bed?” “If, by bed, you mean carrying a glass of wine out back to swing in the hammock, maybe.” I bit my bottom lip, my head falling back against the headrest. For most men, this would have been an innocuous statement. But for a hammock connoisseur like myself, this was the normal guy equivalent of her saying that she liked to give blowjobs during halftime. “You have a hammock out back?” There was a delay in her response, which was followed by a subtle kiss of her lips on what I assumed was a wine glass. “Don’t knock it until you try it. It’s one of the most underrated luxuries in outdoor furniture.” “Oh, I’m not knocking anything. Rope or quilted?” “Mayan, actually.” “Oh, sweet heavenly baby Jesus, she’s beautiful and knows her hammocks. I’ve never been so turned on in my life.” She giggled, pausing for another sip. “You know, if you leaked this hammock fetish to the press, you could probably increase demand by five million percent and singlehandedly lower the country’s unemployment rate.” Okay, so at some point during the day, she’d figured out who I was. But! Even with this knowledge, she was trying to avoid a date with me and was not elbow-deep in planning our televised wedding. This was a definite plus in my book. “Yeah, but then, when I talked to beautiful women like yourself, I’d have no idea if the hammock was your idea or a ploy to impress me.” “Jeez, that’s sad, Tanner,” she said, her sweet Southern accent like a wave rolling over my name. I’d meant it as a joke, but it was the absolute truth when it came to dating. Early on in my career, I’d done a rapid-fire interview about my personal life. One of the questions had been: What would your ideal woman order on the first date? Truth be told, the only thing I hoped my ideal woman would order was something she wanted. I didn’t factor into that. But I’d been on my last question in my last interview of the last day of a month-long press tour. My face had hurt from fake smiling, I’d been in desperate need of a shower, a smoke, and sleep, and my mind had been mush, so I’d prattled off the first thing that had come to mind: shrimp and grits. That one little answer somehow made it onto my Wiki page, and after that, every woman I’d taken out ordered shrimp and grits. One of them even had a shellfish allergy and nearly ended up in the hospital. And this insanity was not limited to women outside of the spotlight. I’d once gone on a date with America’s princess of pop, Levee Williams. We’d hit it off at a charity event. For one of the most famous women in the world, she was a surprisingly nice girl, gorgeous, and funny as all get out. But the first time I took her out? One guess what she ordered. I was at the end of my rope with dating and lost my freaking mind before storming out like an asshole. That night, as I was reporting shrimp and fucking grits as an error to Wiki, I noticed that her page listed it as her favorite food. I’d never had the balls to contact her again, and I once hid behind a palm tree on Rodeo Drive when I heard the clamoring of paparazzi calling her name. But that’s neither here nor there. In short, while finding a woman was all too easy, dating was hard. But that wasn’t about to stop me from trying with Rita.
Originally from Savannah, Georgia, USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez now lives in South Carolina with her four young children. Never one to take herself too seriously, she enjoys cheap wine, mystery leggings, and baked feta. It should be known, however, that she hates pizza and ice cream, almost as much as writing her bio in the third person. She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a super-sized tumbler of wine by her side.
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